I’m reading the Raft paper: https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf
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#52... Don't laugh: C I learnt programming mainly through various scripting languages, some of which had some relatively simple visual output available, which I personally found invaluable for learning and visualizing. I realized that better visual output was the main thing holding me back from doing more in C since there are so many options, often complex, involving much boilerplate. So my mini project is essentially e…
> So far tried fbdev (but doesn't work well with X), now playing with XCB.
Another idea would be to use SDL which essentially provides functionality to make windows, draw pixels and handle input/output. If you do not want to use any library at all and do not mind low "resolution", you could use your terminal as window and regard characters as pixels. Sure, there is the curses library to abstract away different terminals, but if you do not care about platform independence you can just directly write escape sequences to the terminal.
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#53I've been devops/infra for the last few years and my web dev skills have fallen into disrepair. So I'm doing a side project with Django REST API, Golang Job Runners and React SPA to bring myself back up to par.
How would you describe the difference between working in devops vs working in web dev?
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#55Trying to learn quantum machine learning. I am currently a physics professor, but considering moving to industry.
Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?
#56... Don't laugh: C I learnt programming mainly through various scripting languages, some of which had some relatively simple visual output available, which I personally found invaluable for learning and visualizing. I realized that better visual output was the main thing holding me back from doing more in C since there are so many options, often complex, involving much boilerplate. So my mini project is essentially e…
> So far tried fbdev (but doesn't work well with X), now playing with XCB. Another idea would be to use SDL which essentially provides functionality to make windows, draw pixels and handle input/output. If you do not want to use any library at all and do not mind low "resolution", you could use your terminal as window and regard characters as pixels. Sure, there is the curses library to abstract away different termin…
I was indeed trying to avoid the big libraries, since this is just for personal use I don't care about cross platform which allows me to escape these potentially - I may well end up back at the SDL + OpenGL level later when features or performance are a concern.
My current goal is to find a balance of least dependencies and least boilerplate to draw a pixel buffer so i can play with C, nothing more. Once I can do that without lots of fluf then i may be attracted to more advanced or complex methods later on when performance is desirable.
I have done some visual things with the console and printf alone in the past which gave me a taste of C, but now I want some real pixels :)
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#57A bootstrapped SAAS founder who sucks at Marketing. So I have decided to invest time learning everything about Marketing and Digital Marketing. From the ground up. Btw on that note, has anyone heard of Demand Curve which teaches Marketing courses ? I like some of their stuff online and thinking about taking their Premium Course.
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#58I'm learning pentesting for fun. I'm mainly active on hackthebox.eu. I might get my OSCP one day, for fun as well. I do still think the certificate comes in handy despite the fact that I'm applying for web developer positions at the moment. I'm happy I'm learning this though, I'm already noticing that I develop differently, because the little I've learned about pentesting taught me that true cyber criminals are hungr…
I am also learning pentesting, for the cert and to have some methodology in my job ( somewhere between devops/compliance/security). First week into PWK course, I used hackthebox and thecybermentor's practical pentesting course to build up confidence to attempt getting that long wanted OSCP title.
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#60I’ve started getting into Go. Looks good so far. Working on a side project, which is my best way to get into something new.
Checkout the work of Alex Edwards [0] and his book on Go [1]. Great guy and he even helped me with a consulting project.